Red October

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All right..! By all means let's throw out some more Mexican roofers and yard guys. You know they are the real problem, not people like this standing up to disrespect...


We already have our own homegrown leeches we don’t need to import more

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I can't wait for the crime rates to drop to zero once the imports are all gone, and all the unemployed domestic criminals are free to seek gainful employment.

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I knew the Brupbacher twins, circa 1972-73. The other photos appear to be
late 60s to '70 or so and prior.

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One of the twins lives near me. Still very good looking at about 73.

ICE must have already gotten all the really bad actors off the streets already. There are only maybe two Hispanolites in that collage. Mainly just your run-of-the-mill North Louisiana rednecks, skanks, and ghetto trailer trash. Except for the guy on the bottom row, second from the right, who is going to have a hard time explaining this to a) the wife, and b) his co-workers at the paper mill.

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real diamond


Absolutely is a real diamond.
It's the diamond cubic allotrope of carbon.

Anybody saying it's not "real" is retarded.

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Moreover, the actual time to create the stone is approximately the same in the ground or in the lab. The age of a stone in the earth prior to discovery is more a function of the time necessary to move through the crust of the Earth, not the physical process of heat and pressure that transforms the carbon into a clear cubic crystal.

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Paul Prudhomme's method for making a dark roux involves cooking flour and oil over high heat while whisking constantly until the mixture reaches a dark, chocolatey brown color, which can take about 15-20 minutes. Key to this technique is using a heavy-bottomed pot, getting the oil very hot, and whisking vigorously to prevent scorching, which helps to achieve the desired color and flavor more quickly than a low-and-slow method. The roux is then added to the gumbo stock after it's been whisked until smooth.

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I use a variation of this where I put the pot over the high heat for about 15-20 seconds at a time, whisking the whole time. The key is the heavy iron so you build heat in the pot and not directly to the roux. It's probably not as fast as Prudhomme's, but it's quicker than normal, and gets very dark without forming carbon.

Also, I let it cool for 15 minutes, then siphon the excess oil out of it.

Good luck..!

The most important thing is to be completely clear in your wishes for disposing of all of your holding/belongings. Particularly in families where some of the children live out of town/state, and have limited in-person contact with the parent(s), it's very common for the local children to assume more responsibility for dealing with aging parents, and for the out-of-towners to think the worst and assume that the locals are taking advantage of the parent(s). And when you have an out-of-towner who is a genuine a$$hole anyway with no interest other than making trouble for everyone, it's even worse (I can confirm this is true).

You'll find that more often than not, the parent(s) are the glue that holds a family together, and when they are gone, all the sibling resentments and seething discontent come to the surface and can cause incalculable pain.

So, regardless of what your wishes are, do yourselves and your heirs a favor, and nail everything down in advance. And don't assume that something is too small to argue about.

Filson gear. Concur.

Barbour jacket.
Custom suits
Custom shoes and shirts

Powermatic woodworking machines
Pre-64 Winchesters
Belgian Brownings
Pre-1980's Colts
Steiner Binoculars
Any Zero Halliburton case
Leica M6
Hasselblad 500C

Pre-2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
Lexus GX 460
Air-cooled Porsche 911

All are expensive. All will last forever if maintained, and thus represent great value.

Anything less is not worthy of your eminence. Save-up and buy once.

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This one?

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TDsngumbo:

Frick you, a$$hole...

This yahoo is largely a political correspondent, not a sportswriter.

He should stay in Mobile, Alabama...

Seen:

When we moved, the (full) fridge was the last thing in the house. The compressor died, and the freezer full of meat and seafood sat for about 3 weeks. I opened the freezer door and had to run out of the room to keep from throwing up. I opened up the doors to air-out the house, and within 5 minutes there were hundreds of flies everywhere. I suited-up, got everything into contractor garbage bags 30 seconds at a time while holding my breath, and dumped everything into a construction dumpster about a mile away. The smell was indescribable.

Heard of:

Vietnam. My friend was a Green Beret, deployed with ARVN Special Forces. They are out for over a week. ARVN took a medium sized dog with them. Gave it no food or water for three days. At the end of the third day, they filled a big bowl with rice and water, and the dog devoured it immediately. Then they shot the dog, set up a spit, and roasted and ate the dog, including the now full-of-rice stomach. He said that stuck with him for a long, long time.

Honorable Mention:

BR General on Bluebonnet. My MIL with a complex about going to the bathroom takes laxatives so she can do #2. Goes to the ER with horrible stomach pains, then has explosive diarrhea while in the exam room. It's on the walls, nurses are slipping on the floor, etc. You could smell it when you walked into the lobby of the ER. A river of liquid shite. They must have had to put on moon suits to clean that up.


That's the best I've got...